asen

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Abenaki

Noun

asen (inanimate, plural asenal)

  1. a rock, a stone

Asturian

Verb

asen

  1. third-person plural present indicative/subjunctive of asar

Danish

Etymology

From Old Danish asnæ, from Old Norse asni, from Old French asne, from Latin asinus. Largely replaced by Middle Low German esel, see æsel. Cognates include Swedish åsna, Icelandic asni and Faroese asni.

Pronunciation

Noun

asen (singular definite asnet, plural indefinite asner)

  1. Used as a mild insult to or about a person whom one envies or harbors a certain dislike for.
  2. (dated) donkey, ass, (only used as a comparison).
    stædig som et asen
    stubborn as a mule

Inflection

Declension of asen

gender 		singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative asen asnet asner asnerne
genitive asens asnets asners asnernes

Derived terms

Noun

asen c

  1. definite singular of as

References

Galician

Verb

asen

  1. inflection of asar:
    1. third-person plural present subjunctive
    2. third-person plural imperative

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse asni, from Latin asinus.

Noun

asen n (definite singular asenet, indefinite plural asen, definite plural asena)

  1. donkey, ass
    Synonym: esel

Etymology 2

Perfect participle of asa.

Adjective

asen (neuter ase, definite singular and plural asne, comparative asnare, indefinite superlative asnast, definite superlative asnaste)

  1. angry
  2. naggy, noisy

Participle

asen

  1. past participle of asa

References

Romansch

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin asinus.

Noun

asen m (plural asens)

  1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) (male) donkey, ass

Coordinate terms

Spanish

Pronunciation

Verb

asen

  1. inflection of asar:
    1. third-person plural present subjunctive
    2. third-person plural imperative
  2. third-person plural present indicative of asir

Swedish

Noun

asen

  1. definite singular of as c (“one of the Æsir (Old Norse gods)”)
  2. definite plural of as n (“carrion, carcass; asshole”)

Anagrams

Vietnamese

Chemical element
As
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Etymology

From French arsenic.

Pronunciation

Noun

asen

  1. arsenic

Welsh

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle Welsh assen, from Proto-Brythonic *asen (compare Old Cornish asen, Middle Breton asen), from Latin asina.

Noun

asen f (plural asennod)

  1. she-ass, jenny

Etymology 2

From Proto-Celtic *ast (via a derivative *astinā; compare Cornish asenn), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ésth₁ (“bone”) (compare Irish easna, Latin os, Albanian asht). Doublet of ais, related to asgwrn.

Noun

asen f (plural asennau)

  1. rib (curved bone)
Synonyms

Mutation

Mutated forms of asen
radical soft nasal h-prothesis
asen unchanged unchanged hasen

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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